Religious Jewish
Anarchism

While many Jewish anarchists were irreligious or sometimes
vehemently anti-religious, there were also a few religious
anarchists and pro-anarchist thinkers, who combined contemporary
radical ideas with traditional Judaism. Some secular
anti-authoritarians, such as Abba Gordin and Erich Fromm, also noticed remarkable
similarity between anarchism and many Kabbalistic ideas, especially in their Hasidic
interpretation. Some Jewish mystical groups were based on
anti-authoritarian principles, somewhat similar to the Christian Quakers and
Dukhobors. Martin Buber, a deeply religious
philosopher, had frequently referred to the Hasidic tradition.

The OrthodoxKabbalist rabbi Yehuda Ashlag
believed in a religious version of libertarian
communism, based on principles of Kabbalah, which he called
altruist communism. Ashlag supported the Kibbutz movement and preached to establish a
network of self-ruled internationalist communes,
who would eventually 'annul the brute-force regime completely, for
“every man did that which was right in his own eyes.”', because
'there is nothing more humiliating and degrading for a person than
being under the brute-force government'. [1]